NC Bound

Thursday, June 15

Today we went to Apex (NC) to drop our camper to be fixed.  To our surprise, the south end of the American Tobacco Trail was five miles from the dealer.  So we decided to film that trail as well!

Plus, we got to eat dinner in Durham with Katie and Nick and spend the night with them! Doesn’t get any better then that!

Thursday June 22

Katie started a great tradition several years ago by giving us tickets to a DPAC show! So today we headed to NC to see SIX with Katie and Nick. We met them for dinner before the show.  It was a great show, quite different from others we have seen.  The music was powerful with a strong beat throughout as the six wives of Henry VIII sang their life stories.  It was the only time we’ve seen the entire audience stand and clap for an entire song as the show came to an end.  Thanks Katie, it was a great experience!

Friday

Kelley and Maggie came today as they are going on a cruise tomorrow with Katie, Henry and Audrey.  It’s the first time we have all been together since the pandemic!  We had a fun evening together and then they were all off early Saturday on their way to Norfolk to catch the ship!

Greenbrier Trail

Thursday June 8th

We drove to Marlinton (WV) today to film a video of the Greenbrier Tail for our YouTube page.  We have lots of memories of the area, camping at Watoga State Park with the girls, hiking, riding horses, seeing bears, elk, and mountain lions….plus riding the trail with the Double Nickels!

We rode from Seebert to Cass over our three day stay. The trail is as beautiful and well maintained just like we found it in previous years. We stayed at the Locust Hill Inn along with six other people from Lynchburg who were also riding the trail! We got to Cass in the morning when they were starting the locomotive.  It puts out a lot of smoke at first and then diminishes to what you see in the picture below. You can see why cities were really smoggy during the steam engine era!

We worked on the video and we’re able to post it by the middle of the next week, so we are back on track! One note…we really miss our camper.  Three days of eating at restaurants really messes with our bodies.  We love going in our camper so we can maintain our normal dietary habits!